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Town Hall, Commonwealth & Main, |
The Erlanger - Fort Mitchell Bus |
Two more shots of the Bentler Building, one with lots of
pedestrians, and one with a jitney (bus).
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Dixie at McAlpin |
Erlanger, c. WWI |
Dixie Highway, Erlanger |
The first word in Erlanger history is Henry Childress' History of Erlanger, here.
The Q & C Depot, Erlanger
(The Queen and Crescent, later the Southern, later
the Norfolk Southern. It started out
as the C. N. O. & T. P - the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas
Pacific.)
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| The Erlanger Depot, 1974 |
The depot being moved. It's about 100 feet west of its original location | Erlanger Depot, September, 1911 (a Kentuckiana Virtual Library image) |
The C. N. O & T. P. |
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Current home of the Erlanger Depot Museum, and the
Erlanger
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In the snow, before |
Commonwealth Avenue |
Erlanger Elsmere |
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Grandstand at Erlanger Fairgrounds |
Trotters Race at the Erlanger Fair Grounds | Grandstand at the Erlanger Fairgrounds |
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The grandstand you see here seated 4,000 people and was located where the Lloyd High School Campus is today. The first Erlanger Derby was run here in 1906. |
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A Kentucky Post preview of events at the 1910 Erlanger Fair, including "the inevitable Oriental dancers," is here. |
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Aerial View of Erlanger |
Edgewood / Erlanger Aerial |
Kenton Co Public Library
Depending on how you count, this is
either the first, second, or third public library in
Erlanger-Elsmere. It's the first stand-alone building that had a
library. An earlier library was
begun in the old Citizens Bank Building, which is the first library, according
to a history of the
libraries by Harry Riggs, which you can read here.
He read the history on the occasion of the dedication
of the above building on May 19, 1957. Evidently, everyone forgot there
was an earlier library on Garvey, just
off Dixie, as shown in this Sanborn Fire map c.
1940. More on Sanborn maps below.
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Looking East in 1911 |
Erlanger Scenes after the |
Riggs Avenue
Russ Garnet Excavating, building the
Erlanger Road
Thanks to Lucy Riffle for this picture and a description: "I found this old
picture of my grandfather
Morris Y. Thomas (in the plaid coat), Chetty Skidmore (3rd to his right
standing up) and some other
men when they built Erlanger Road. Behind them is where Super Bowl is now;
Riggs
Avenue, not yet built, now runs to the right down past the barns."
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| Child Life in Erlanger, Kentucky | Seining for Minnows in Dry Creek on the Sunset Poultry Farm, near Erlanger |
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The map on the left is from a Sanborn Fire Map of Erlanger from 1909, and the map on the right is excerpted from a Lake Atlas of 1883. You can see more expansive versions of both. For Northern Kentucky Sanborn maps, a Kenton County library page here will get you started (click on the Sanborn map link); for a complete pdf file of the Lake Atlas for Boone-Kenton-Campbell for 1883, try here, also the Covington library site. And be patient, it's a huge file, but well worth your time and trouble. |
The City of Erlanger was first
incorporated on January 25, 1897.
Their brochure, Lookin' Back, a
detailed look, street by
street, and house by house, of old Erlanger, is
here.
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Plat for an 1879 sale of lots in Erlanger. Note that
north is toward the bottom right.
from the Covington Daily Commonwealth, April 4. 1879
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On September 19, 1888, at a barbecue in Erlanger, one of Kentucky’s Senators, Joseph C. S. Blackburn debated the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, then Covington’s John J. Carlisle about tariff reform. 6,000 people showed up. |
Or maybe 15,000 showed up. Story here.
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Two murder stories from 1890's Erlanger, here. |
The City of Erlanger was first incorporated on January 25, 1897. |
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The Erlanger Historical Society is here. |
The official City of Erlanger site is here. |
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Shootout in an Erlanger saloon in 1887, story here. |
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"Cincinnati Furniture
Exchange - The big outing of the Exchange took place on June 22.
This is the twentieth annual outing which members of the Exchange
have had the pleasure to attend. This year's big outing was at
Cody's big farm in Erlanger, Ky., the place where all had such a
grand time last year. Promptly at 9 o'clock in the morning
Kentucky burgoo was served, after which a round of mint juleps was
presented to the members buy Colonel Cody, the host. At 1
o'clock a big chicken dinner was served and during the afternoon
there were roasting ears and a barbecue. In the evening, a
real old-fashioned Kentucky supper gave the members a chance to fill
up - those who had any room left in which to put it. There was
a band and orchestra to make things merry during the day, and
Goetz's entertainers were there to drive the blues away." |
You can read about other folks who had their annual soiree's at Colonel Cody's farm in Erlanger:
